Light-Science & Applications

Light: Science & Applications is an open access, online-only journal founded in 2012 by the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and published in partnership with Springer Nature, covering all aspects of optics and photonics, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 24.0《光：科学与应用》是一份完全开放获取的纯在线期刊，2012 年由中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所（CIOMP）与（Springer Nature）合作创办，涵盖光学与光子学的各个方面，2025 年影响因子为 24.0。

Scope

• It publishes high-quality research across the full spectrum of optics and photonics, including basic, applied and engineering work该刊发表光学与光子学全领域的高质量研究，涵盖基础、应用与工程工作。
• Major topics include lasers and laser optics, fiber optics and optical communications, and micro- and nanophotonics主要主题包括激光与激光光学、光纤与光通信，以及微纳光子学。
• Its scope also covers biophotonics and medical optics, optical imaging and display, and optical materials, metamaterials and photonic crystals其范围还涵盖生物光子学与医学光学、光学成像与显示，以及光学材料、超材料与光子晶体。^[1]
• Further areas include nonlinear and ultrafast optics, quantum optics and quantum information, and optical metrology and detection其他领域包括非线性与超快光学、量子光学与量子信息，以及光学计量与检测。^[2]
• It publishes research papers, review articles, perspectives and historical reviews, together with news and views and research highlights该刊刊载研究论文、综述文章、前瞻与历史回顾，以及新闻与观点、研究亮点。
• The Light People column features interviews with leading scientists and engineers, and a correspondence column supports discussion of published work（Light People）栏目刊载对杰出科学家与工程师的访谈，通讯栏目则为已发表工作的讨论提供渠道。

History

• The journal was launched on 29 March 2012, when its opening editorial and first two papers appeared online该刊于 2012 年 3 月 29 日创刊，当日其发刊词与首批两篇论文正式在线发布。
• It was created by CIOMP in partnership with the Nature Publishing Group, now part of Springer Nature, as China's first English-language optics journal该刊由长春光机所与（Nature Publishing Group，现为 Springer Nature 的一部分）合作创办，是中国第一本英文光学期刊。
• It was accepted into the Science Citation Index in October 2013 and received its first Journal Impact Factor of 8.476 in 2014该刊于 2013 年 10 月被（Science Citation Index）收录，并于 2014 年获得首个影响因子 8.476。
• The journal is fully open access and online only, and it uses the DOI rather than volume and page numbers to identify papers该刊完全开放获取且仅在线出版，并以（DOI）而非卷号与页码标识论文。
• It is co-sponsored with the Chinese Optical Society and maintains an international editorial board该刊与中国光学学会共同主办，并设有国际化的编委会。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 24.0, with a Source Normalized Impact per Paper of 4.763 and an SJR of 4.946其 2025 年影响因子为 24.0，标准化的每篇论文影响（SNIP）为 4.763，SJR 为 4.946。

Editors

• The honorary Editor-in-Chief is Jianlin Cao, a former director of CIOMP and a former Vice Minister of Science and Technology of China荣誉主编为 Jianlin Cao，曾任长春光机所所长与中国科学技术部副部长。
• The journal is led by two Co-Editors-in-Chief, Martin Booth of the University of Oxford and Yun-Feng Xiao of Peking University该刊由两位共同主编领导，即（University of Oxford）的 Martin Booth 与（Peking University）的 Yun-Feng Xiao。
• Martin Booth holds the chair in Optical and Photonic Engineering at Oxford and works on adaptive optics for microscopy and laser processingMartin Booth 任（Oxford）光与光子工程讲席教授，研究面向显微与激光加工的自适应光学方法。
• Yun-Feng Xiao is a professor at Peking University whose research focuses on whispering-gallery microcavity optics and photonicsYun-Feng Xiao 是（Peking University）教授，研究集中于回音壁微腔光学与光子学。
• The founding Executive Editors-in-Chief were Tianhong Cui of the University of Minnesota and Stefan Kaierle of Laser Zentrum Hannover创刊执行主编为（University of Minnesota）的 Tianhong Cui 与（Laser Zentrum Hannover）的 Stefan Kaierle。
• The journal's editorial policies are determined jointly by its editorial board and Springer Nature in accordance with Chinese law该刊的编辑方针由编委会与（Springer Nature）依据中国法律法规共同确定。